[Iris7]

"No Child Left Behind", I am told by my spies buried in the Belly of the Beast, means mostly that no student can flunk a grade, but must be passed on. Otherwise minorities would not be "keeping up", vehrstehen Sie?

[trebb]

"No Child Left Behind", I am told by my spies buried in the Belly of the Beast, means mostly that no student can flunk a grade, but must be passed on. Otherwise minorities would not be "keeping up", vehrstehen Sie?

That may be how those "in the Belly of the Beast" interpret it, but that's how they've been interpreting it for decades. What they really fear (and what will entice them to try to covertly continue as before) is having to actually teach kids something. Too many left-wing agendas get in the way and belie the "It's for the children" lie that they use as a doctrinal foundation. Capische?

[Fledermaus]

I disagree. It's already showing what schools aren't keeping up through simple testing and no one is being moved on.

That's the status today before this bill.

Now they have to get better or be forced to close. Already in TENN we have the schools that aren't performing being forced to get with it and do what is necessary and they are.

It's not perfect (I'd prefer more vouchers) but it's working so far to at least designate those schools that aren't doing their job.

I'm sure in more liberal states, what you said might be more true. But it won't help when they can't pass the test that aren't controlled by the schools.

I don't know what is so controversial about this. This is how the schools worked when I was a kid.